Stockholm Trivia

This is the week when the Swedish Academy starts announcing the winners for the Stockholm Trivia when the Swedish Academy starts announcing the winners for the 2013 Nobel Prizes. First out are the Medicine, Physics, Chemistry together with Literature Prizes... on Fri the Peace Prize winner volition live on announced followed past times the Economics Prize on Monday.

Alfred Nobel, a Stockholm native, was a chemist, engineer together with inventor. He had 355 dissimilar patents, only his most famous innovation was undoubtably dynamite. It was his innovation of dynamite, together with the devastation is wreaked, that caused Nobel to live on concerned virtually his legacy. So inwards his volition he pose aside the mass of his estate (about $250 million) to practise the Nobel Prizes. The nominations are kept clandestine together with the winners are announced inwards the outset of October. The laurels ceremony is held on Dec when the Swedish Academy starts announcing the winners for the Stockholm Trivia10th (the anniversary of Nobel's death) inwards Stockholm, except for the Peace Prize which is awarded inwards Oslo (at the fourth dimension of Nobel's death, Kingdom of Norway was inwards a personal matrimony amongst Sweden). Besides the Nobel prize medal together with the honour of beingness a Nobel Laureate, the winners are awarded 10 1000000 SEK.

If y'all are interested inwards Alfred Nobel together with the Nobel Prizes, thence I would recommend a watch to the Nobel Museum. It's located inwards the Old Town, correct on the principal foursquare (Stortorget). The closest tube station is Gamla Stan (red together with greenish lines), though it is an tardily 10-15 infinitesimal walk from the Rival Hotel. Closed on Mondays, the entrance costs lxx SEK, fifty for students together with seniors, costless for children nether 19. Free entrance, of course, amongst the Stockholm Card.

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